Documentary / Urban / Religious (2011) 80 minutes ~ Color
This inspirational documentary featuring TD Jakes offers testimony from a number of prominent and unknown African-Americans who discuss how faith helped them through some of the most difficult times of their lives.
Director: Parrish Smith
Stars: Paul Morton, T. D. Jakes, Noel Jones, Jamal Bryant
This inspirational documentary featuring TD Jakes offers testimony from a number of prominent and unknown African-Americans who discuss how faith helped them through some of the most difficult times of their lives.
Director: Parrish Smith
Stars: Paul Morton, T. D. Jakes, Noel Jones, Jamal Bryant
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00:00And the man took his finger, put his finger in my daddy's face, and he said, if you niggas
00:09don't leave here, we're going to lock you up, and get on away from here.
00:15It was a conflict between myself and the nation.
00:20They declared war on me.
00:23I got bomb threats.
00:25The media never understood or even cared about what they were doing to my family.
00:29Sometimes when I laid on that rock and felt so all alone, I wondered, is there a God?
00:36So you got to learn how to have a press conference, but then sit down and have a self-conference.
00:41And then when my sister dropped, oh man, I got angry at God.
00:46The scroll gives you an opportunity to look beyond the lips of the prophet, into the heart
00:53and the fears and the feet of the prophet.
00:57He said to me, son, you are not only a good preacher and pastor, but you are a man.
01:10The doctor tells you that you're going to deliver, but we're not quite sure if the child
01:16is going to live.
01:18Sometimes our greatest messages are never in our lips.
01:23It's in our struggle, it's in our pain, it's in our problems.
01:28Our human fallacies is what connects us to people, and I think the opportunity to let
01:33people know that you're just a God like anybody else, a person.
01:36You're preserving a piece and a slice of our history as Africans in the North American
01:40diaspora that probably nobody else is doing.
01:44Everything I've been through makes up West Morgan.
01:47And that's why I consider him to be so effective in people's lives, because I'm not telling
01:50you something I read.
01:51I'm telling you something that I'm living.
01:53This is my life.